MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, making them eligible for Hall of Fame
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There are thousands of hurting children in Indiana. They are in the child welfare system due to abuse or neglected home. They struggle in school due to life trauma or challenges and they face mental health issues. At child advocates, we serve foster children. We help children succeed in school and we host workshops to create collaborative workplaces and caring communities and to nurture a sense of |
| 0:21.6 | belonging for all children and youth. We seek justice, access to opportunity, and well-being for |
| 0:27.1 | children. Learn more at child advocates.net. So the commissioner of the MLB, Rob Manfred, he |
| 0:34.0 | ruled that the MLB bans end upon a person's death so this is while it will affect |
| 0:40.4 | other people this is targeted primarily at Pete Rose uh the other mega name will be shoeless Joe |
| 0:47.4 | Jackson most of you will know shoeless Joe Jackson was a member of the the black sock scandal he |
| 0:52.2 | was made very famous in both the movie Eight Men |
| 0:54.2 | Out as well as Field of Dreams. This is ridiculous because this is the, so Joe Jackson has |
| 1:03.6 | been dead. He died in 1951, 73 or 74 years now. And now the commissioner just comes out and goes, well, when you die, |
| 1:12.9 | the ban is lifted. Well, then Joe Jackson's got about 70 years of IOUs going on here. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah. Because Joe Jackson, statistically, was a hundred times the player Pete Rose could have |
| 1:23.8 | ever dreamed of being. And if he'd have been allowed to stay in baseball for his entire career, would have had incredible |
| 1:29.0 | numbers. |
| 1:29.3 | He was a 356 lifetime hitter. |
| 1:31.2 | He was an amazing baseball player. |
| 1:33.6 | And yet now the commissioner, because of pressure from people like the president are like, |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, the band just ends when you die. |
| 1:42.1 | I've changed my mind. |
| 1:43.0 | And he can do that, huh? |
| 1:46.8 | Look, the baseball has ruined itself. |
| 1:48.9 | We've talked about this with these stupid rule changes. |
| 1:50.4 | They just make it up as they go along. |
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